| Saturday, April 16, 2005 |
| Shoot the Horses! |
Best. Baseball game. Ever.
The Sosa photo I put in the last post proved prophetic.....
"Tejada and Sosa hit back-to-back homers in the sixth inning last night and contributed five RBIs to a seven-run outburst, and left-hander Bruce Chen went the distance to defeat the New York Yankees, 8-1, before a sellout crowd of 48,061 at Camden Yards."
It was Sosa's first home run at Camden Yards, so it was really exciting to be there for that. He still has to hit one out of the stands at Washington's RFK Stadium, Cleveland's Jacobs Field and Texas' Ameriquest Field, to have hit a homer in ever US ballpark.
We had the bleediest of nosebleed seats along the third base foul line, but aside from some depth perception problems, there really isn't a truly bad seat in that stadium. Honestly.
Props to pitcher Bruce Chen. He was amazing and is gonna do great things for us if he keeps this up.
In addition to a GREAT baseball game. It was terrific meeting some new friends (courtesy of our tickets), so Hi to Pavin, Alexi, Lindsey, Dan, Seth, and of course, Laura and David - hope to see you guys again! I'm sure I'll be seeing Laura thanks to Mark. We also ran into Andrew, Denise and her daughter Melinda, Jwer, and Jay - all of us were there independently of each other!
After much text messaging in the stands, we all met up after the game briefly, and a few of us went on to Dizzy Izzies for one more beer before happily heading home.
As for the title of the post - you just had to be there....... |
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Thanks for fact checking my "only two other parks" assertion about Sammy.
The source I'd recalled had not mentioned Texas; when I read another article this morn, I immediately feared for your accuracy given my normally Olympian command of such factoids and the generally resultant credulity towards them.
I suck. You rock. It was indeed a good game. Pity none of us were really awake at Issie's -- which, by the way, DID actually feel much more like a "dive bar" last night.
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A Bar with Stella Artois on tap?? In Baltimore? Please sir, can I have another? Yes - perfect dive bar ( within our defined limitations). And the food rocks too (as far as bar food goes.)
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Yep, and in easy walking distance to my house. As is the best indie club in MD, a great second-tier art museum, Mike Phelps' favorite breakfast counter, LAXHOF and, soon, a very good albeit non-indy bookstore.
BHill is great, but greater CVille too has its charms (technically, I live in Harwood, but we won't get into that ...).
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Thanks for fact checking my "only two other parks" assertion about Sammy.
The source I'd recalled had not mentioned Texas; when I read another article this morn, I immediately feared for your accuracy given my normally Olympian command of such factoids and the generally resultant credulity towards them.
I suck. You rock. It was indeed a good game. Pity none of us were really awake at Issie's -- which, by the way, DID actually feel much more like a "dive bar" last night.